Amended in Assembly May 3, 2017 Amended in Assembly March 30, 2017 California Legislature—2017–18 Regular Session ASSEMBLY BILL No. 1321 Introduced by Assembly Member Weber February 17, 2017 An act to add Section 33130 to the Education Code, relating to education finance. Legislative Counsel’s Digest AB 1321, as amended, Weber. Education finance: fiscal transparency. (1) Existing law establishes a system of elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, public and private schools provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Controller, and the Director of Finance to take actions to ensure, for purposes of transparency, that the reporting of per-pupil expenditures of federal, state, and local funds, includes actual personnel expenditures and actual nonpersonnel expenditures of federal, state, and local funds, disaggregated by source of funds, as specified, for each local educational agency and school in the state, as required by a specified provision of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. The bill would require the Superintendent, in compliance with federal requirements, to ensure that each local educational agency collects appropriate data, and includes specified information information, in the local educational agency’s annual report. The bill would also require the Superintendent, the Controller, and the Director of Finance to establish guidelines for the reporting of personnel and nonpersonnel expenditures, as specified, and to establish the methodology for disaggregating local control funding formula funds. The bill would also require the Superintendent, the Controller, and the Director of Finance to consider, no later than March 1, 2018, the provisions of the bill in developing and adopting new standards and criteria for local budgets and expenditures pursuant to a specified statute. The bill would require local educational agencies to adhere to the standards and criteria adopted pursuant to the bill commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year. To the extent that this bill would impose new duties on local educational agencies, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: P2 1 SECTION 1. Section 33130 is added to the Education Code, 2 to read: 3 33130. (a) For purposes of transparency and local, state, and 4 federal reporting, the Superintendent, the Controller, and the 5 Director of Finance shall accomplish all of the following: 6 (1) Ensure that the state report card required by Section 7 1111(h)(1) of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (Public Law 8 114-95) includes the per-pupil expenditures of federal, state, and 9 local funds, including actual personnel expenditures and actual 10 nonpersonnel expenditures of federal, state, and local funds, for 11 each local educational agency and each school in the state for the 12 preceding fiscal year. To comply with federal requirements that 13 the state report card be concise, the Superintendent, the Controller, 14 and the Director of Finance shall establish guidelines for the 15 reporting of personnel and nonpersonnel expenditures that 16 minimize, to the extent allowed by federal law, the recordkeeping P3 1 burden on local educational agencies and that result in a report 2 card that can be quickly and easily understood by the public and 3 enables transparent disclosure of the expenditure of local control 4 funding formula funds. 5 (2) Enable the disaggregation of state and local funds by the 6 source of the funds, including, but not necessarily limited to, local 7 control funding formula base grants and supplemental and 8 concentration grants and other state and local funds for each local 9 educational agency and each school for purposes of state and local 10 reporting. The Superintendent, the Controller, and the Director of 11 Finance shall establish the methodology for disaggregating local 12 control funding formula funds. 13 (3) Ensure that the per-pupil expenditures reported include 14 expenditures for free public education, including (A) expenditures 15 for administration, instruction, attendance and health services, 16 pupil transportation services, plant operation and maintenance, 17 fixed charges, and net expenditures to cover deficits for food 18 services and student body activities; but do not include (B) 19 expenditures for community services, capital outlay, and debt 20 service, or any expenditures made from funds received under Title 21 I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Public 22 Law 89-10, as amended). 23 (b) The Superintendent, in compliance with federal 24 requirements, shall ensure that each local educational agency 25 collects appropriate data, and includes in the local educational 26 agency’s annual report report, the information described in 27 paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) as applied to the local 28 educational agency and each school within the jurisdiction of the 29 local educational agency. 30 (c) The provisions of this section shall be considered, no later 31 than March 1, 2018, by the Superintendent, the Controller, and the 32 Director of Finance when developing and adopting new standards 33 and criteria pursuant to Section 33127. Notwithstanding any other 34 law, to enable fiscal reporting, local educational agencies shall 35 adhere to the standards and criteria adopted pursuant to this section 36 commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year. 37 SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that 38 this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to 39 local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made P4 1 pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 2 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code. O